Buying Guide

The ultimate buying guide to tell you everything you need to know about the most suitable projectors for your home theater, gaming room, classroom, meeting room, etc.

Best Projectors Under $4,000 for 2026

Four thousand dollars used to buy a lamp-based home theater projector and a reasonable screen. In October 2026 it buys…

2 weeks ago

Yoton Y3 vs Magcubic HY300Pro: The $38 Projector That Says Netflix Won’t Work, and the $50 One That Never Mentions It

There is a $12 gap between two of the smallest projectors on Amazon's bestseller list, and the most important difference…

2 weeks ago

TMY V08 vs AuKing M8-F: Two $69.99 LCD Projectors Whose Listings Keep Rewriting Themselves

On Tuesday morning two of the oldest names on Amazon's projector bestseller list cost exactly the same. The TMY V08…

2 weeks ago

Best Projectors With Netflix Built In for 2026

The most common complaint about cheap projectors is not brightness or fan noise. It is that Netflix will not open.…

3 weeks ago

ONOAYO ONO5Pro 2.0 vs Nebula Capsule 3: Prime Day Ended and the Price Order Flipped Overnight

On the last day of Prime Big Deal Days, the ONOAYO ONO5Pro 2.0 was the cheaper of these two projectors…

3 weeks ago

Best LCD Projectors for 2026

"LCD projector" covers two machines that have almost nothing in common beyond the word. One is the three-panel design Epson…

3 weeks ago

Dangbei N2 mini vs Magcubic HY350Max: $39 Apart on Prime Day, One Claims Three Times the Light and the Other Opens Netflix

Prime Big Deal Days has put two single-panel LCD projectors within $40 of each other. On the morning of October…

3 weeks ago

Best 1080p Projectors for 2026

Native 1080p is the resolution most people actually end up watching, and it is also the one Amazon listings blur…

4 weeks ago

HAPPRUN H1 vs Thunrlge HY300 Pro: The $85 Projector With No Apps and the $54 One That Says It Has Netflix

The second-best-selling projector on Amazon this week cannot play Netflix, YouTube or anything else on its own. The HAPPRUN H1…

4 weeks ago

$429.99 Four Days After $196.93: WiMiUS’s P62 Pro Now Costs Nearly Twice VOPLLS’s Google TV G3 Pro

On September 25 the WiMiUS P62 Pro sold for $196.93 on Amazon and sat at number twelve on the projector…

1 month ago

Best 4K Projectors Under $1,000 for 2026

A thousand dollars is the first price where "4K" on a projector box starts to mean a 3840 x 2160…

1 month ago

Best Projectors for iPhone in 2026

Almost any projector will show an iPhone screen if you add enough adapters, apps and patience. The ones worth recommending…

1 month ago

$101 Apart: Dangbei’s N3 Max Is 2.6 Times Brighter, Anker’s Nebula P1i Has the Bigger Speakers

Put Dangbei's N3 Max and Anker's soundcore Nebula P1i side by side on Amazon this week and the listings read…

1 month ago

Best 3D Projectors for 2026

Television makers stopped building 3D sets years ago, which leaves the projector as the only large screen you can still…

1 month ago

Two 720p Best Sellers, $20 Apart: Magcubic Says 200 Lumens, Philoent’s Photos Say 8,500

Two of the projectors in Amazon's top ten this week look like the same product from different sellers. Both are…

1 month ago

Best Pico Projectors for 2026

A pico projector used to mean something specific: a palm-sized box with a phone-camera-sized light engine, a few dozen lumens…

1 month ago

$320 Apart: Dangbei’s MP1 Max Is Quieter and Cheaper, XGIMI’s HORIZON 20 Pro Moves Its Lens

Two 4K laser projectors from Chinese brands are now $320 apart on Amazon, and the gap is doing more work…

1 month ago

Best Business Projectors for 2026

A business projector is bought for one reason: the room has windows, or lights that nobody is allowed to turn…

1 month ago

Six of the Seven Best Sellers That Name a Brightness Unit Say 150 to 300. The Seventh Says 1,500.

Twenty-four projectors sit on Amazon's best-seller list for the category this week. Seventeen of them describe their brightness in words…

1 month ago

Best Short Throw Projectors for 2026

A short throw projector solves one problem: the room is not deep enough. A typical home projector with a 1.5:1…

2 months ago